Guild Wars 2

Stealth itself is not a problem.

Handing it without any drawbacks except not being able to stealth again for 3/4 secs if you land and attack, while retaining all the dmg mobility and being able to chain it over and over… yes, might cause few issues.

Just change the F1 and improve autoattack and i’d be happy.

Chris.3290:

This seems to be a fanboy page for EU guilds.

Name a NA guild who could be on par in the run then….if there is.

Is Guardian worth rolling for WvW?

For everything except roaming:

-Hell yeah.

And in roaming is not that they’re bad, just that there are some better options – tag team Guard + War/Mes/Thief tho is incredibly strong.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

We care about all professions. =)

Thanks for good laugh…

Ryan.2758:

kiwituatara.6053:

I thought they were going to buff healing signet. The reworked formula now grants the healing per 3 seconds instead of 1 second = less total healing

If you read the patch notes, you’ll notice that they give the current healing as per 3 seconds as well.

This means its a buff, meaning = more total healing.

Actually it’s a typo, the itck is still once every sec.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Yay-warrior-buffs/first#post2468275

Next time i’m going to send them the corrected code attached to the report, so they can fix it asap…that’s how you’re supposed to report bugs i guess, if you want them fixed one day.

Clyne.9038:

Anet forgot to nerf Mesmer.

Don’t worry, a hotfix is underway – if stealth changes are not already in the package.

But “ascended armor requires ectos” is plain and pure speculation atm.

Ofc i think too it’s very likely to be so, but that’s another thing.

Prysin.8542:

AndrewSX.3794:

If Remorseless hasn’t a ICD, then that’s quite a interesting thing, considering the rate of kills in a Zerg vs Zerg battles it could get refreshed extremely fast.

Ofc, it’s matter to see if it’s worthy to invest in the Opening Strike thing…

the whole “opening strike thing” comes with the minor traits.. if you get remorseless, you got the “opening strike thing”…

Point is, will some vuln stack that you can’t predict when will get applied be worth it?

That’s the issue in the “opening strike thing”, not the acquisition.

Main income of ectos is meta event farm, so i doubt.

If Remorseless hasn’t a ICD, then that’s quite a interesting thing, considering the rate of kills in a Zerg vs Zerg battles it could get refreshed extremely fast.

Ofc, it’s matter to see if it’s worthy to invest in the Opening Strike thing…

Also: retaliation on Whirling Defense, blast on Call of the Wild (rangers needed a Blast finisher HARD) and GS polish are very nice additions.

I’d just want to know for sure if it’s coming or it’s out of question.

I can totally wait it to get in, i can totally go on and redo a char… i’d just want to know for sure if wait or go on.

Inbefore redoing a char and seeing race change pop up 2 weeks later.

Mixed bag, but not too bad imo.

Granted, some things makes downright no sense or will need some testing.

1 sec ICD to Spectral Walk/Armor sounds meh, but is guess this has been done to bring them in line with Mes/Ele auras. Also, being buffed the LF regen it might even be a buff in some istances. Anyway, CDs on this 2 skills could surely use a cut, due to this change.

Staff: larger base marks? Great! Moving away one of the 2 traits, i can deal with it (with staff build you go to 20 or even 30 anyway – wvw pov). But tbh, merge already GM and Staff mastery, come on.

DS changes…eeeh. Makes some sense because, as some said, 1% of LF was worth like a dodge, wasting a whole attack regardless of dmg. On the other hand, DS is the class defensive mechanic, if you can’t use it to defend yourself reliably what’s its purpose? I guess some play time to test is needed to see how much this affects Nec gameplay.
Oh and no more jumping off cliffs, sad.

Terror nerf: come on, everybody knew this was coming. And 17% is much less than most foreseen.
Pair it with

Rune of Melandru: Fear duration is now only reduced once by this rune set. The negative stun duration bonus no longer reduces incoming fear duration. This is also true for food consumables that offer a negative stun duration bonus.

And things get balanced out.

In short: some nerfs, few buffs, overall it went much smoother than expected imo.

Hyung.6140:

I have to confess, I saw the words “Null Field” under the word “Mesmer” and went into full panic mode…

“OH GOD, THEY’VE NERFED NULL FIELD TOO – IS NOTHING SACRED?!”

Took me a full few seconds to release this was actually… a buff?! I didn’t know how to feel.

Ahaha, same here.

While i’m too on the boat “RNG again, you never learn?”, i must admit that now it makes much more sense.

First: single token type for all the event weapons.
Second: as this say

Aetherblade weapon skins have been added to the Black Lion Weapon Specialist. For two weeks only, Aetherblade weapon skins cost only one Black Lion Claim Ticket! After August 5, Aetherblade weapon skins will cost their regular price of 5 Black Lion Claim Tickets. All Aetherblade weapon skins are soulbound on use and can be traded until used.

Skins are now soulbound on use. It’s possible to buy them off TP, on paper.
Third: yeah, having a progress with the 10 scraps thing even if you keep missing the jackpot is surely a iimprovement.

Metatail.1306:

In my ideal PvP players have ~600 hp tops, 100 damage is a lot, there is an energy pool and no traits. ;(

I see what you did there.

And i second.

On topic: points are valid, but must be done with a huge number of skill splits.
Destroying AoE might be beneficial for spvp with small maps and mechanics that force you to hold the ground on a cap point to win, but would crush the whole WvW where you have large groups, opne field playground and cap points are structures.

It’s all down how much time you spend with more than 90% hp.

You, sir, just spoiled those 2 lines in my play.

I want dat freaking Fire line now.

/thumbs up

Mada.5319:

Probably scnd.

Seconded (pun intented).

They’re very good and have stomped quite some guilds in latest month on the EU scene.

Well, grats.

That’s some impressive combo of stats, even accounting being in WvW.

It’s just bad.

Bad meta, bad mode (and there’s only one), bad rewards….

But hey, it’s Esportzzzz.

Hunzo.4509:

And yes the problem is content with regards to the skill content there just is not nearly enough of it.

That’s not what it meant..

Issue with content in regards of the full zerk teams topic (that’s what are we talking about no?):

It get broken so much and so easily by raw DPS it’s just ridicolous.
It doesn’t test/need/reward any deeper tactical play, no CC, no Support, just DPS the world down.

(to speedrunners/zerk team supporters: i’ll give that doing DGs so fast and so clean is much harder to pull off than how “DPS things down” might make to think. Timing dodges/pull/group buffs and so on. But point still stands.)

Raven.9603:

nerf hundred blades hard. /thread?

No.

The main issue here, in the Mes/War/Guard teams – or to be more precise, in the “Full Zerk” meta – is not in the classes.

The problem is the content.

Put them back yearly as “commemorative sale” or something like that.

Who missed them have a chance/date to look foward for acquiring those, and being handed out once every 12 months it retain the “not-so-common” feeling.

5 points for faster ninjia wall take down, than move on.

mzt.3270:

AndrewSX.3794:

mzt.3270:

I have been saying this for months, lowering the WVW population caps is the easiest and most cost effective way to deal with skill lag.

The drawbacks of reducing the map cap are much worse.

Explain?

Lower map cap means a exponential increase in queques.
Which means destroying servers communities by forcing players to transfer away due to this.
That’s much worse than the problem, especially considered we’re talking about efforts that goes further than mere game, like websites/public voip (like TS) for wvw/scheduling raids, organizing guilds, weekly meetings to talk and sort out any issue in the server community….

And all of this should be destroyed cause Anet can’t sort out lag and discourage blobbing?

No thanks.

Dawdler.8521:

Look at the bright side -

I see what you did there.

mzt.3270:

I have been saying this for months, lowering the WVW population caps is the easiest and most cost effective way to deal with skill lag.

The drawbacks of reducing the map cap are much worse.

Siphaed.9235:

Lucyfer.9517:

No, unless it can be permanently disabled.

Why would it need to be disabled?

Because most ppl don’t care, think spvp is crap or would be just annoyed by another popup.

Also: https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/86278/Rytlock_esports.gif

This never gets old when eSportzzz topic pops up.

What Osi said.

It’s a client-side graphical bug.

How to solve skill lag:

-destroy blob meta

Done.

Ridafyt Whitestrike.8397:

Ridafyt Whitestrike (I speak on behalf of myself in this post, not my guild or my server)

But you still get my big +1.

<3 Ryda

TC do not apply swiftness if you (or anybody crossing it) already have some.

This is due to a beta “bug/exploit” where you could stack ages of swiftness by hopping in-out of TC multiple times.

Lucky.9421:

It happens 1000 years before the fight we had in Nightfall. This is not something we have experienced in the previous games.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Exodus

Thus is going to be even more awesome.

Who cares of the stuff those Asura makes explode, they do it on daily basis.

VOLKON.1290:

""The one promise we made in that for sure the Orb mechanic will drop this year.":http://gw2hub.com/features/interviews/colin-johanson-interview-looking-ahead

By looking at those answers about WvW, looks like community concerns/issues/suggestions/discussions of last 6 monts or so have never happened – or at least have never been considered.

Lag?
New or, at least, improving current Maps?
Gvg?
Crush the Skilless Blobbing 24/7 meta?
Matchups?
Commander improvements?
Telling us if you want WvW to be casual crap for bored pvers or being a viable endgame for hardcore wvw guilds?
Rewards still horrible?

Just few things.

Aeri.5738:

What legs and boots are these?
I hope this is not Norn only

Sorry to crush your hopes, but those looks like Norn T2 Leg + T3 Boots.

Lionheart.8476:

Can som1 tell me what shoulders and head that is?

Iirc, shouders are T3 Light Norn armor.
Head instead is the Norn version of the Necro red starter mask, whatever is called.

I’d just like to know if they’re looking foward to it.

I’m fine with my choices but i’m thinking that changing race could improve it. I wouldn’t mind too much redoing my char tbh, but redoing it and then as soon as i hit 80 again see the race change hit the CS would be…slightly..annoying.

Direksone.3867:

Don’t forget: they will be working on a revamp of the dungeons.

Since AC nothing has been changed anymore tho.

Apart dredge fractal becoming more and more annoying each patch.

Don’t touch the zerk stat per se.

But redo the content to not be so ridicolously broken anymore by raw DPS, give CC usefulness (read: revamp Defiant) and mechanics to test the support/straying power of a team.

Problem isn’t zerk dmg or having dmg oriented builds: is that atm the whole pve is “DPS, dodge stuff, DPS”, which makes it incredibly swallow and boring to play.

More tactical/team play requirement, please.

Take a look at lately Colossus price whoppings.

Something is going on, other precursors aren’t being affected in any shape or form like it.

GuardianOMS.8067:

“ANet made me pick a main and I’m upset about that.”

And it’s a gamer right to be.

I dislike palying the same profession for more than a week straight, i like variety.

Yet getting some gear for all of my chars is a chore, Wxp is char based and icing on cake, if i ever get to commander tag it will be char based too.

lollasaurus.1457:

To be honest I think adding GvG to the HoTM and sPvP area of the game would be easier to add/better than the PvE version. Being locked into a tier of 3 servers and not being able to skirmish outside of that is pretty lame.

This is true and sounds reasonable, the issue is that if they work out GvG trough HotM, 99% imo it will turn out to be a sPvP ladder.

Still conquest
Still 5v5
Still bad.

Just with guild teams and guild ladders.

So they will be able to say “Here we go, GvG!”

People are asking it trough wvw cause they want it to be massive and open field, not a 1,2,3 v 1,2,3 boring fighting on nodes like the sPvP is.

More loot for WvW: good.

Only gripe, it might encourage the flipping/WPX zerg trains even more, but that’s bad already so nothing will really change…

Vena.8436:

Zikory.6871:

IMO while expanding the World make one of the new zones a open PvP zone. That would give a different aspect to PvE in that zone and it would give a place for GvG out side of WvW.

Whats wrong with Obsidian Sanctum for GvG? The staging area is perfect for GvGs! You can even have spectators at the spawns, safely watching.

Or is it too small an area?

Try getting 40+ people trough EB queques in prime time.

Jijimuge.4675:

One skill from GW1 that I’d love to see return, but in GW2 form….

Shatter Delusions – remove all stacks of confusion on target. Deals X damage to the target per stack removed.

Down the GW1 Mesmer gameplay?

Just give me back Panic, Fevered Dreams and Vision of Regret….

Mmmh, btw…

We’ll also expand the competitive options for game play: providing a queue and leaderboards for solo rated play separate from team rated play, adding new map types, adding

new map types

Tell me that you’re giving us something different and better than conquest.

Please.

zerotwo.4731:

So, instead of running cof 1 over and over we come up with a list of dungeon paths that are quick as well and you just run them daily.

A very welcomed change.

“Farming” DGs will get waaaaaaay less dull, because you won’t feel like wasting time if instead of 1 hr of CoF you do 1 hr of 3 different DGs.

About proficency, it’s way too early to tell.

On the War/Mes/Guard > all issue: it’s a encounter flaw, where bosses/DGs as whole gets “broken” by raw DPS.
For that, the only real option is a extensive update and revamp of DG mechanics (bosses, trash, gating, defiant, making CC and support needed troughout a run) to break the “Full DPS Zerk” meta – but it’s not easy task so i wouldn’t expect it to happen anytime soon, considered that they’ve redone only AC so far, nothing meaningful happened in DGs since that, and it haven’t changed anything anyway.

They said elsewhere that they’re working on the “Gw2 answer to raids”.

About everything else, finger crossed for some DG extensive revamp.